Rachel Reeves said that in the public examination of the knife stabbing in Southport, “no stone should remain on the other” and that social media companies have a moral responsibility to remove harmful online content.
The Chancellor said that the events that led to the attack in July last year would have to be examined in detail to ensure that a similar incident could never happen again.
Axel Rudakubana, 18, was sentenced to at least 52 years in prison because he had murdered three girls who took part in a dance event by Taylor Swift in a center in the city of Merseyside.
Alice da Silva Aguiar, Nine, Elsie Dot Stancombe, Sieben, and Bebe King, six, died of her injuries.
(From left to right) Bebe King, Elsie Dot Stancombe and Alice da Silva Aguiar (Merseyside Police/Pa)
In conversation with Trevor Phillips in his Sunday morning broadcast on Sky News, Ms. Reeves said: “It is terrible what happened in Southport and what bad, figs this man committed.”
“The effects will feel these families forever, and it is correct that there is now a public investigation to find out what went wrong all over the world.”
She added: “The man was referred to Prevent three times, he was found several times with a knife and he had attacked a boy with whom he was at school, and yet he managed to slip through the system.
“That is why it is absolutely important that we learn from it, not only to convey a certain understanding of the families of those who have lost their relatives, but also to prevent this from ever happening again.”
“And no stone should remain on the other with this examination.”
Ms. Reeves said that the investigation had to determine Prevent’s approach to determine the ideology and what they consider as terror.
The number of children, against which is investigated for participation in terrorism, has tripled in the past three years, Interior Minister Yvette Cooper told Parliament last week.
MPs heard that 162 people were referred to Prevent in connection with school massacres last year.
“I think part of what this public investigation has to clarify is that Prevent looks at the things they consider as terror, because I understand this case because they did not believe that the murderer had an ideology he had So did not have a risk, just like someone could be that could have an ideological motive.
“But just because you don’t have an ideological motive does not mean that you cannot be a mass murderer and incredibly dangerous.”
A prison car observed by demonstrators leaves the Liverpool Crown Court, where Axel Rudakubana, 18, was imprisoned with a minimum penalty of 52 years (Peter Byrne/Pa)
In the same show, the chairman of the conservative party, Kemi Badenoch said that Rudakubana should have received a longer prison sentence.
A lifelong prison sentence could not be granted because he was 17 years old at the time of the murders.
Ms. Badenoch told Sky News: “If he had done this ten days later, he would have been entitled to a lifelong prison sentence.”
“I would like to make sure that victims do not have to see their perpetrators after such severe and hideous crimes.”
When asked about the death penalty, she said: “I personally don’t think that would solve things … I don’t think we should proceed.”
Ms. Reeves said it was wrong that Rudakubana was able to look at harmful material online before the attack, which might have led to his fixation on violence.
She repeated the comments from her cabinet colleague Ms. Cooper, who had told Parliament last week that companies should remove content immediately.
She had said: “We ask the companies to take responsibility now and not continue to benefit from really dangerous material that children endangered.”
Ms. Reeves said on Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg on BBC One: “It is completely unacceptable that the murderer, before he committed these terrible crimes, could really easily access hateful material and the like on some online platforms.” Companies have moral responsibility to remove this content and make it difficult for people to access it. ”
She said the government would introduce measures in the online security law that would force companies to remove similar material.
However, she added: “There is nothing that can prevent companies from removing this material now.”
The chairman of Reform UK, Nigel Farage, a supporter of Elon Musk, asked the X owner to remove any terrorist material that may be on his platform.
When asked whether Mr. Musk should remove a video seen by Rudakubana of a sensational knife in Sydney, Mr. Farage told LBC: “If you tell me it is still there.”
He was told that the video was still available and he replied: “It should come down. Of course it should be like that. “
This is because people who buy knives online, as part of the stricter age checks that the government will introduce in the course of the Southport attack, have to present a photo ID at the point of sale and again when delivered.
As part of the new two -stage system, which is prescribed for all retailers that sell the blades online, buyers may have to present an official document such as a passport or driver’s license and a proof of address before they can show an ID when delivered.
The sale of knives with a fixed blade of more than three inches of under 18 year olds is illegal in England and Wales, and retailers must expect fines or criminal prosecution in the event of violations of the law.
The applicable laws require sellers to pursue a system for age review that a person under the age of 18 probably prevents the purchase of a knife. However, legislation does not prescribe the elements of such a system.
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